"Interrogation for Profit" (editorial, June 12) correctly lauds Congress's belated effort to bar private contractors from interrogator roles — more than four years after we learned of the contractors' responsibility for detainee abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Participants spoke about how contractors' responsibility for a safe worksite is delegated to site personnel, and about their perspectives on workers' own responsibility for safety.
In Indian policy, this is delineated as contractors' responsibility to issue passbooks to migrant workers in the Inter-state Migrant Workmen Act [IMWA, 43, article 12] as well as the directive of state labor welfare boards to maintain registrations and provide identity cards for workers (who have worked 90 days) in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act [BOCWA, 60, articles 12 13].
It is the general contractor's responsibility, then, to make payments to subcontractors and suppliers.
Raytheon, a leading defense contractor, retained responsibility on some projects and agreed to compensate Washington for cost overruns on another.
"It's the contractor's responsibility from that point on to get the gas to the individual customers," Mr. Olert added.
Communications between the administration and contractors improved over the weekend as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began negotiating agreements with contractors on responsibility and deadlines for repairs, people involved in the project say.
Mr. Levin said Medicare and its contractors shared responsibility for "this taxpayer rip-off".
Mr. McKay repeatedly responded that BP was responsible for designing the well, but that the rig, cement and other contractors shared responsibility for safety on the drilling operations.
The public says it wants Serco and Atos and the others to 'fess up: only a fifth think private contractors take responsibility for service failure.
